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The village of Glenshaw, Pennsylvania — at the center of what became Shaler Township — was established in the early 19th century, beginning with a log sawmill built by John Shaw, Sr. after he bought of land north of Pittsburgh in 1800.
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* Commodore, Pennsylvania, an unincorporated village in Pennsylvania in the United States
Walking tour of the historic area of Ambridge, Pennsylvania: Being the former village of Economy, 1824 – 1902.
the Mantua district of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ; the village of Mantua in Baltimore County, Maryland ; the hamlet of Mantua ( sometimed spelled Manatua ) in Greene County, Alabama ; and a location in Monroe County, Iowa.
During the war, the village of Kittanning – the principal Shawnee settlement on the river – was completely destroyed by British reprisal raids from Central Pennsylvania.
* Centreville, the original name of the village of Penns Creek, Pennsylvania
In the eighteenth century, some of the Mohican developed strong ties with missionaries of the Moravian Church from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, who founded a mission at their village of Shekomeko in Dutchess County, New York.
The most notable ones being New Jersey and Pennsylvania, townships are a class of incorporation with fixed boundaries and equal standing to a village, town, borough, or city, analogous to a New England town or towns in New York.
The play was set in the village of Bird-in-Hand and is often credited as a catalyst for the boom in Pennsylvania Dutch Country tourism in the mid-twentieth century.
In 1926, a hydroelectric plant was built by the Pennsylvania Power and Light Company on Wallenpaupack creek at the former village of Wilsonville, which now lies under Lake Wallenpaupack.
In early March 1782, 160 Pennsylvania militia led by Lieutenant Colonel David Williamson raided the villages and garrisoned the Indians in the village of Gnadenhütten, accusing them of taking part in raids into Pennsylvania.
Sinoquipe Scout Reservation ( Sinoquipe means Builder of Men ) is a remote forested mountain facility with a lake located in the rural area two miles ( 3 km ) from the village of Fort Littleton, Pennsylvania in Fulton County.
His son, Judge Joshua F. Cockey ( 1800 – 1891 ), was a lifelong resident in the village and built the train station ( what would be part of the Pennsylvania Railroad ) and accompanying commercial buildings in the 1830s.
The former village lies in the southern part of the Town of Carrollton and is six miles north of the city of Bradford, Pennsylvania.
The name of the village is said to have been contrived from the first syllables of " Pennsylvania " and " Yankee ," as most of the early settlers were Pennsylvanians and New Englanders ( or Yankees ).
East Palestine is a village in Columbiana County, Ohio, United States, near the border with Pennsylvania.
Gilbert Carpenter, the founder of the village, came from Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, and was the first Methodist clergyman in Delaware County.
The Pennsylvania Railroad's connection to the town in 1871 had a significant effect on this development by drawing the paper mill, and with it the village, into the mainstream of national commerce.
The Wyalusing Path or trail was a historical trace that ran from what is now Wyalusing to the Native American village of Canaserage ( what is now Muncy ) in Pennsylvania in the United States.
The village became known as Attleborough until 1876, when it was incorporated and named for Jeremiah Langhorne, an early resident of the area and former chief justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
Originally a village located in Falls Township, until it was partitoned as a borough by the Pennsylvania Legislature in 1804.
The Northern Sub ran from the junction to the village of Ribold outside of Butler, Pennsylvania.
For the village in Bucks County, see Nockamixon Township, Pennsylvania.
( During the American Revolutionary War, in 1782 Pennsylvania militia raided another Moravian mission village, also called Gnadenhutten, in present-day Ohio.
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With the establishment of the Soviet system and the entrenchment of a proletarian cultural direction — the culture of the working classes, which included that of village labourers — was actively supported by the Soviet establishment.
Suddenly the Stars and Stripes flew — as it does today, and especially as it did after the September 11 attacks in 2001 — from houses, from storefronts, from churches ; above the village greens and college quads.
Mesmer was born in the village of Iznang, on the shore of Lake Constance in Swabia, AUSTRIA, a son of master forester Anton Mesmer ( 1701 — after 1747 ) and his wife Maria / Ursula ( 1701 — 1770 ), née Michel.
* Instant messaging and presence — wireless village
Dartmouth College was established in 1769 beside the Common at a village called the Plain — an extensive and level tract of land a mile ( 1. 6 kilometers ) from the Connecticut River, and about 150 feet ( 46 meters ) above it.
The earliest settlement at Mehrgarh — in the northeast corner of the site — was a small farming village dated between 7000 BCE to 5500 BCE and the whole area covers a number of successive settlements.
Approaching a ' village ,' the little dogs may be observed frisking about the ' streets ' — passing from dwelling to dwelling apparently on visits — sometimes a few clustered together as though in council — here feeding upon the tender herbage — there cleansing their ' houses ,' or brushing the little hillock about the door — yet all quiet.
In the past, many rural pubs provided opportunities for country folk to meet and exchange ( often local ) news, while others — especially those away from village centres — existed for the general purpose, before the advent of motor transport, of serving travellers as coaching inns.
He was born in the Franconian village of Unfinden ( now part of Königsberg, Bavaria ) — not in the more famous East-Prussian Königsberg.
There are more than 1, 500 Scandinavian place names in England, mainly in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire ( within the former boundaries of the Danelaw ): over 600 end in-by, the Scandinavian word for " farm " — for example Grimsby, Naseby and Whitby ; many others end in-thorpe (" village "),-thwaite (" clearing "), and-toft (" homestead ").
Throughout 1968, Fatah and other Palestinian armed groups were the target of a major Israeli army operation in the Jordanian village of Karameh, where the Fatah headquarters — as well as a mid-sized Palestinian refugee camp — were located.
Grito de Dolores ( on the evening of September 15 ) and Aniversario de la Independencia ( September 16 ) commemorate Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla's Grito de Dolores — on September 16, 1810, in the village of Dolores, near Guanajuato.
But they didn't get far beyond the village, as the 7th Armored Division and the remaining regiment of the 106th Infantry Divisions — with elements of the 28th Infantry Divisions and the 9th Armored Division — held firm outside that town.
To those living locally, the continuity leaps were often amusing — departing a house in the village the actors would find themselves immediately in an area distant.
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This showed that common sense had not died out at the county and village level -- though why the unhappy and obviously unbalanced woman was not restrained remains a puzzle.
when, on the journey to London that immediately follows, he pauses nostalgically to lay his hand upon the finger-post at the end of the village, the wooden pointer symbolically designates a spiritual frontier between innocence and the corruption of worldly vanity.
Motorists like myself who can remember the old `` tourists accommodated '' signs on farm houses and village homes before World War 2, can only marvel at the great size and the luxury of the relatively new and fast-grossing motel business.
Henrietta looked down at her bouquet, still lively with its color and scent, and set her feet on their journey's way again, leaving the village street and crossing the first field, Folly dancing ahead of her.
The school is involved in a study of the prehistoric and historic landscape at Slievemore, incorporating a research excavation at a number of sites within the deserted village of Slievemore.
The Fa ' amatai and the Fono take place at all levels of the Samoan body politic, from the family, to the village, to the region, to national matters.
Due to the crowded nature of Rome at the time, Octavius was taken to his father's home village at Velletri to be raised.
The child was born at Treveri, near the village of Ambitarvium, just before the junction of the Moselle River and the Rhine River ( modern Koblenz Germany ).
The ruins have been excavated at a site near the village of Kanakia of Salamis, a few miles off the coast of Athens.
He was born in the latter part of the 12th century at Bennes, a village between Ollé and Chauffours in the diocese of Chartres.
Traversari was born near Forlì, at the village of Portico di Romagna in 1386.
Ayckbourn wrote his first play at Wisborough Lodge ( a preparatory school in the village of Wisborough Green ) when he was about 10.
In 1939 Grothendieck went to France and lived in various camps for displaced persons with his mother, first at the Camp de Rieucros, and subsequently lived for the remainder of the war in the village of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, where he was sheltered and hidden in local boarding-houses or pensions.
Among the most exciting recent archaeological discoveries in Greece is the recognition that the sanctuary site near the modern village of Kalapodi is not only the site of the oracle of Apollon at Abai but that it was in constant use for cult practices from early Mycenaean times to the Roman period.
The present town of Ajaccio was founded in 1492 south of the Christian village by the Bank of Saint George at Genoa, which dispatched Cristoforo of Gandini, an architect, to build it.
From being a mere village in an agricultural district at the beginning of the 19th century, the place grew rapidly in population owing to the abundance of coal and iron ore, and the population of the whole parish, 1, 486 in 1801, increased tenfold during the first half of the 19th century.
This in turn led to the building of a deeper water pier a little around the bay at Hawkcraig, and to the development of hotels and many of the other services still on view today in the village.
It is situated about 4 km southeast of the village of Achiltibuie, at the end of a minor road.
The Pictish village which was constructed at Fox Point was used on most days of the filming.
Haznawi grew up in the village of Hezna, where his father was a cleric at the mosque in the central marketplace section of the village.
On 10 June, the Duke met for the first time the President of the Imperial War Council, Prince Eugene – accompanied by Count Wratislaw – at the village of Mundelsheim, half-way between the Danube and the Rhine.
During 11 August, Tallard pushed forward from the river crossings at Dillingen ; by 12 August, the Franco-Bavarian forces were encamped behind the small river Nebel near the village of Blenheim on the plain of Höchstädt.
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